Date of Award
2013
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.H.K.
Department
Kinesiology
Keywords
Health and environmental sciences, Education, Family meals, Food preparation, Kinect-Ed, Young adolescent intervention, Young adolescent/parent dyad
Supervisor
Sarah Woodruff
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Recently, public health messaging has included having more family meals and involving young adolescents (YAs) with meal preparation in order to improve healthful diets and family dinner frequency (FDF). Kinect-Ed, a nutrition education program included a motivational presentation created to encourage YAs (grades 6-8) to help with meal preparation and ultimately improve FDF. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Kinect-Ed presentation, correlations between YA/parent dyad responses, and to determine parents' perception of the Kinect-Ed. Participants consisted of YAs (n=113), and dyads (n=219) from the Niagara Region. Kinect-Ed successfully improved participants' FDF, food preparation frequency, self-efficacy for cooking, and food preparation techniques; furthermore, scheduling was found to have the biggest effect on FDF. Therefore, encouraging YAs to get involved in the kitchen may reduce the time needed from parents to prepare meals, which may minimize scheduling issues, and allow more time for frequent family dinners.
Recommended Citation
Ciccone, Jillian, "Parent and young adolescent perspectives of family meals and meal preparation and the influence of the Kinect-Ed program" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4878.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/4878